Amazon Q Developer vs Kiro vs GitHub Copilot vs Cursor
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's sunsetting AI coding assistant — Kiro is the successor
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Kiro
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE — plans before it codes
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free — unlimited completions + 50 agent chat interactions/month | — | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required |
| Paid from | Pro $19/user/month (unlimited agent interactions, IP indemnification) | — | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2024 | — | — | 2022 |
| Maker | Amazon | — | Microsoft | SpaceX |
| Verdict | Amazon Q Developer is on the clock: AWS closed new signups on May 15, 2026 and ends support for the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on April 30, 2027, steering everyone toward Kiro, its spec-driven successor. Until th... |
Kiro's spec-first approach is a deliberate answer to freeform vibe-coding: it forces requirements and a design doc through structured EARS notation before touching code, and reviewers say that genuinely cuts rework on co... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.